... a miscellaneous hodgepodge of various thoughts, loosely held together by the fact that they're all emanating from a single mind. A lighthearted look at the world, a great place to waste a moment or two of your life.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

On the topic of man-made global warming...

Wow, 18 states are suing the EPA for not acting to regulate greenhouse gases from automobiles (technically, they're suing that the EPA hasn't made a decision as to whether or not to regulate automotive emissions; I personally think "no decision" is a "'no' decision" - which is fine with me!). What I find really amusing is Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's statement about "incontestable dangers" - um, these "dangers" are highly contested at various levels! For instance, consider James Spann's take. James is a meteorologist (since 1978). I liked his comment on Rick & Bubba the other day, something like: "If they can't predict the weather over a 7-day course, how in the world can they claim to predict it tens to hundreds of years in advance?" (Not a direct quote, but it was something like that.) Besides... Martha Coakley... she has a bachelor of arts degree in "History of Ideas" and a law degree... I don't think she's necessarily qualified to indicate whether these so-called dangers of global warming are incontestable. (Info about Martha Coakley came from her resume, available on her web site.)

Seriously, go read the James Spann article; it bring out a lot of how the hype of "man-made global warming" is really a political issue, not a weather or climate issue (e.g., some experts want to take certification away from meteorologists who don't support the man-made global warming craze; and there's always the financial aspects of what happens to the support money if it's not really an issue after all... lots of people will lose their funding). Please, just do some research. Real research, not just reading what the media likes to promote. And it does make sense that the average temperature has been rising... as James points out, "we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe" and "the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference [sic] than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades."

Once you've done all that, take a look at the video attached to this article... what a great role model for our young tennis enthusiasts! :) Anyway, gotta go...